"phillerup" wrote: > Hi, > Id love to setup a scarecrow sprinkler to keep Herons, cats and my dog > away from my pond. I dont want to have garden hose running acrosss > the yard, the pond is quite a ways away. Any easy way to use my > exisitng pump, that is feeding my waterfall, to push water to the > scarecrow? Any thoughts? > I have had more than one scarecrow. The last one has worked fine for quite some time but one previous one would start and not stop, another worked sporadically. Not a huge issue if connected to your hose, but you'd be embarrassed if you emptied your pond! I'm also not sure you would get enough pressure using a pump. How much oomph does it have? San Diego Joe 4,000 - 5,000 Gallons. Koi, Goldfish, and RES named Colombo.

"phillerup" <bill.gannon@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1191258864.644225.306260@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com... > Hi, > Id love to setup a scarecrow sprinkler to keep Herons, cats and my dog > away from my pond. I dont want to have garden hose running acrosss > the yard, the pond is quite a ways away. Any easy way to use my > exisitng pump, that is feeding my waterfall, to push water to the > scarecrow? Any thoughts? I've never found the Scarecrows very reliable and I doubt you'd get enough pressure from your pump. I did buy some water solenoid valves on eBay ($10) that I planned to hook up to the garden hose and Pond motion sensor. But it's still on the todo list, as the Heron never came back.

> Id love to setup a scarecrow sprinkler to keep Herons, cats and my dog > away from my pond. I dont want to have garden hose running acrosss > the yard, the pond is quite a ways away. Any easy way to use my > exisitng pump, that is feeding my waterfall, to push water to the > scarecrow? Any thoughts? Wouldn't you have to keep the pump running all the time , so it would work when activated by the sensor and it would probably take a fair sized pump to spray properly ($$$$$ - both for pump and electricity) JMO - Gale :~)